The world's first center for mass production of eye and skin bio-implants was officially inaugurated in Iran.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended the inauguration ceremony in an industrial estate in the central city of Qom on Saturday.
Iran is the first country to undertake the mass production of eye bio-implants while the U.S. is the only other country to have the know-how to produce this material, the Mehr News Agency reported.
Bio-implants are medical material made of cells with a biological base compatible with body cells.
Skin bio-implants are used for treating burns and various kinds of sores caused by disease and surgery on the body.
Eye bio-implants are used to treat cornea sores and chemical damage to the eye and mass production of them would have major advantages including no need for anesthesia during surgery and having no more local bleeding or other side effects during the treatment period of chronic ophthalmic diseases.
Two years ago, bone bio-implants were mass produced in Kish, Iran and a few months ago Iranians started the mass productions of heart, artery, and tendon bio-implants.